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Ian Birrell

  • Award-winning columnist and foreign reporter. Contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday and weekly columnist in the 'i' paper. Writes regularly for many other papers, platforms and magazines. Frequent broadcaster and speaker at events. Co-founder wth Damon Albarn of the Africa Express music project and executive producer of 4 albums...Read more
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Recent Articles

  • China’s stooges expose the real Covid conspiracy
  • Schools offer a lesson on Labour’s confusion
  • Why isn’t China a pariah state?
  • We don’t need another review. The care system is rotting while politicians play tawdry games
  • Jimmy Carter’s selfless work for the poor and sick after he left office serves as a stinging rebuke to the venality of Blair and Cameron

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Care does not need private equity

Published by The i paper (4th January, 2021) We can, thankfully, talk about 2020 in the past tense. It was... Read Full Article

Floating factories as big as football pitches plundering our seas and killing dolphins

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th December, 2020) The bodies of dolphins and porpoises have washed up with alarming... Read Full Article

The toxic British worship of the NHS

Published by UnHerd (2nd December, 2020) When Michael Gove sought to shore up support for the Government’s polices on lockdown,... Read Full Article

Fix the care system and end these inhumane detentions

Published by The i paper (30th November, 2020) Susie* is 16 years old. She has autism and special needs. And... Read Full Article

Has America changed its mind about drugs?

Published by UnHerd (12th November, 2020) If there is one thing that pretty much everyone in the United States can... Read Full Article

A shameful failure of decency

Published by The i paper (5th October, 2020) Here we go again. The Tories are sliding in the polls. The prime... Read Full Article

Cannabis failures show why we need to legalise drugs

Published by The Times (10th September, 2020) Carly Barton is a former university lecturer who suffered a stroke at the... Read Full Article

Symbols of the hostile environment

Published by The i paper (7th September, 2020) Clapton Girls’ Academy has a motto to inspire pupils in one of... Read Full Article

We owe it to asylum seekers to help them

Published by The i paper (31st August, 2020) Hala has known nothing but conflict and chaos all her life. She... Read Full Article

Incompetence, conspiracy – and how our culture of NHS worship is costing lives

Published by The Daily Mail (25th August, 2020) Today Harry Richford should be a bundle of energy, full of curiosity... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • China’s stooges expose the real Covid conspiracy
  • Schools offer a lesson on Labour’s confusion
  • Why isn’t China a pariah state?
  • We don’t need another review. The care system is rotting while politicians play tawdry games
  • Jimmy Carter’s selfless work for the poor and sick after he left office serves as a stinging rebuke to the venality of Blair and Cameron

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aid autism Blair Boris Brexit Cameron China coalition Conservatives Corbyn coronavirus crime Daily Mail democracy Dfid Disability drugs EU Guardian human rights immigration Independent ipaper Labour LibDems Libya May Miliband MoS NHS Nigeria Observer Putin Russia social care Syria Times Trump Ukip Ukraine UN UnHerd USA Wuhan Xi Jinping

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